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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Advance global expiration when period timer is restarted
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Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com> writes:

> I noticed the group frequently got throttled even it consumed
> low cpu usage, this caused some jitters on the response time
> to some of our business containers enabling cpu quota.
>
> It's very easy to reproduce:
> mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
> cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
> echo 100000 > cpu.cfs_quota_us
> echo $$ > tasks
> then repeat:
> cat cpu.stat |grep nr_throttled // nr_throttled will increase
>
> After some analysis, we found that cfs_rq::runtime_remaining will
> be cleared by expire_cfs_rq_runtime() due to two equal but stale
> "cfs_{b|q}->runtime_expires" after period timer is re-armed.

If this is after the first patch, then this is no longer what should
happen, and instead it would incorrectly /keep/ old local cfs_rq
runtime, and not __refill global runtime until the period.


>
> The global expiration should be advanced accordingly when the
> bandwidth period timer is restarted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 9f384264e832..bb006e671609 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5204,13 +5204,18 @@ static void init_cfs_rq_runtime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>
> void start_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> {
> + u64 overrun;
> +
> lockdep_assert_held(&cfs_b->lock);
>
> - if (!cfs_b->period_active) {
> - cfs_b->period_active = 1;
> - hrtimer_forward_now(&cfs_b->period_timer, cfs_b->period);
> - hrtimer_start_expires(&cfs_b->period_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
> - }
> + if (cfs_b->period_active)
> + return;
> +
> + cfs_b->period_active = 1;
> + overrun = hrtimer_forward_now(&cfs_b->period_timer, cfs_b->period);
> + cfs_b->runtime_expires += (overrun + 1) * ktime_to_ns(cfs_b->period);

I think we actually want if (overrun) __refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime(),
much like tg_set_cfs_bandwidth

> + cfs_b->expires_seq++;
> + hrtimer_start_expires(&cfs_b->period_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
> }
>
> static void destroy_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)

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